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While state attorney general Richard Blumenthal concedes that the situation is bleak, he insists that the state is actually on Hartford's side. "One of the ironies," Blumenthal notes, "is that Connecticut has been a leader in promoting racial balance by supporting measures such as magnet schools, school choice, charter schools. And there is more money in the state budget this year than in previous years for those kinds of measures." But reforming the system through such voluntary initiatives is "a very long, tedious process,'' says Mayor Peters. "In the meantime we're losing another half a generation of students...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Havel became even more outspoken in the 1970s.He was an original signer and chief spokespersonfor the Charter-77 movement, which described Czechcitizen's criticisms of the autocratic government...
Other educational issues Shanker discussed included charter schools. He said that although he originally believed the chartering of schools "would bring out all sorts of creativity," lack of regulations will force a return to outmoded methods of teaching...
...Each new charter school founded inMassachusetts improves the education of all ourkids," said Governor William F. Weld '66 in apress release. "Students will soon be matchingwits with one another in a whole new generation ofpublic schools...